![]() ![]() Hopefully, this will guide you to your decision. This book is a marvelous resource for people who love to get at the source material, but I couldn't give a lick about what is first, I care only for what is best. Goodness knows the movies this tale has spawned have been less than faithful, but they seem a better resource, almost, as they're better told, better written and far more engaging. Robin Hood by Stephen Thomas Knight, 2003, Cornell University Press edition, in English. ![]() I give this one three stars simply because I was so wholly unimpressed with these stories. ![]() Sometimes these translations seem a bit questionable, but they are nevertheless marvelously helpful. They are gathered here in untranslated middle English (they fix misspellings and inconsistencies, but that's it) and while that's not much fun to read, when things get complicated, the translators placed a helpful translation of some of the more difficult words on the margins. These are the tales of Robin Hood as they came out, from multiple persons at multiple points in time. The stories are, for the most part, boring and poorly told, but the underlying plot is nearly always at least compelling. It's telling that this book has received a few starrings and no real reviews. Robin Hood and other outlaw tales by Stephen Thomas Knight, Thomas H. ![]()
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